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• The emotional state that leads to achievements resembles that of a worshiper or the lover.

  Albert Einstein

  Emotional, Achievement, Feelings

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• Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

  T. S. Eliot

  Real, Passion, Mean

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• The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Moon, Certain

  "The Works of Michael de Montaigne".

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• Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.

  Edmund Burke

  Greatness, Men, Landmarks

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.2433, Delphi Classics

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• Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and agitation, it is not happiness. Happiness means calmness of mind.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Mean, Confusion

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.86, Penguin Books India

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• The federal war on drugs is a total failure... The federal government's going in there and overriding state laws... Why don't we handle the drugs like we handle alcohol? ... I fear the drug war because it undermines our civil liberties. It magnifies our problems on the borders. We've spent over the last 40 years a trillion dollars on this war and - believe me - the kids can still get the drugs. It just hasn't worked.

  Ron Paul

  War, Believe, Kids

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• O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Sleep, Night

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 5

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• Love may be blind, but this I'll state - it's eagle-eyed compared to hate.

  Robert Breault

  Hate, Eagles, May

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• As the wealthiest nation on Earth, I believe the United States has a moral obligation to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition, and to partner with others.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Fighting, Hunger And Poverty

  "Obama welcomes Hollande as French president hints at Afghan compromise" by Ewen MacAskill, Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

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• Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel compassion can help us overcome these disturbances and let us return to a calm state of mind. Compassion is not just being kind to your friend. That involves attachment because it is based on expectation. Compassion is when you do something good without any expectations - based on realizing that "the other person is also just like me".

  Dalai Lama

  Jealousy, Buddhist, Kindness

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• We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well. We have our own Third World here. And we have to first become aware of that and how to help and solve that.

  Martin Sheen

  War, Fighting, Thinking

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• Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

  Juvenal

  Ambitious, Poverty

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• I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time build a state that is-regardless of how unscientific this may sound to the ears of a political scientist-humane, moral, intellectual and spiritual, and cultural.

  Vaclav Havel

  Spiritual, Hero, Law

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• There are in the human mind a group of faculties and in the brain groups of convolutions, and the facts assembled by science so far allow to state, as I said before, that the great regions of the mind correspond to the great regions of the brain.

  Paul Broca

  Brain, Mind, Groups

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• Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Book, Reading, Kingdoms

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• A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Christian, Becoming

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• A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Class, Organization, Democracy

  State and Revolution (1919) ch. 4

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• The state is the servant of the citizen, and not his master.

  John F. Kennedy

  Class, Citizens, Masters

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.9, Best Books on

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• Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.

  John Updike

  Debt, Might, Sacred

  John Updike (1980). “People One Knows: Interviews with Insufficiently Famous Americans”

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• State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Intelligence, Ethics, Morality

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1853). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.238

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• It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.

  Anne Roiphe

  Friendship, Moving, People

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• Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Men, Joy

  John Hawkesworth, Samuel Johnson, Richard Bathurst, Joseph Warton (1793). “The Adventurer”, p.216

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• Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.

  Ernest Renan

  Happiness, Joy, Mind

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• At each epoch of history the world was in a hopeless state, and at each epoch of history the world muddled through; at each epoch the world was lost, and at each epoch it was saved.

  Jacques Maritain

  History, World, Hopeless

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• Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near nausea, much of it induced by trifles, which used to belong to people who were at once ill-adjusted and over-civilized?

  Louis Kronenberger

  Hysteria, People, Age

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